MIT To Release Next-Generation OS "Cesium"

Posted by timothy on Monday October 29, 2001 @11:58AM from the call-the-next-one-nitrogen dept.

snowphoton writes: "Slant-Six magazine has an article about Cesium, a fascinating (and soon public) operating system from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. A virtual machine, an object-oriented database-driven filesystem, and a 3D GUI mean that this isn't your father's operating system." This article doesn't address licensing, except to say that it "is due to be released by the end of the year for free," so it will be interesting to see just what "free" means here. Update: Yep, it's a hoax. Fun! Tricks are neat!

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Re:Never heard of any such Cesium project... by Cato+the+Elder · 2001-10-29 12:32 · Score: 5, Interesting

I didn't find anything on the web either, although of course project names get changed a whole bunch.

But the article was supposedly written by a
"Harvey M. Dunkirk" who says he's an assistant to one of the lab's directors.

However, no such person appears in the LCS directory--and "Support Staff" is listed for some of the people there.

Mighty fishy--I welcome a clarifying comment from anyone with more first-hand knowledge.